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Author Griffith, Sally Foreman.

Title Home town news : William Allen White and the Emporia gazette / Sally Foreman Griffith
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : illustrations
Series OUP E-Books
Contents 1. The Education of a "Somebody"; 2. The New Editor; 3. A Practical Printer; 4. The Making of a Progressive; 5. Booster Progressivism; 6. Spokesman for Community; 7. Community Journalism; 8. Booster Nationalism; 9. Mass Media Come to the Small Town
Summary This biography of William Allen White, one of the best known newspaper editors of early 20th century America, is concerned not only with White's career, but also with small-town values and achievements in turn-of-the-century America, when the nation was changing dramatically
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-282)
Notes Print version record
Subject White, William Allen, 1868-1944
SUBJECT White, William Allen, 1868-1944 fast
Emporia gazette (Emporia, Kan. : 1899)
Subject Journalists -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Journalists
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Emporia (Kan.) -- Social life and customs
Subject Kansas -- Emporia
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 88018794
ISBN 9780198022268
0198022263
1280523522
9781280523526
9786610523528
6610523525